Environment

The houses and fields of many people in Cao Bang Province were buried after a dyke containing the waste sludge generated at a local iron ore excavator broke.

China's booming car sales have had a devastating effect on the environment, the national environmental watchdog has warned.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has just given a list of 45 riverside locations that are prone to landslides.

In 2011, Ho Chi Minh City expects to receive 3.5 million foreign guests, 11% higher than this year

Ho Chi Minh City’s chronic flooding problems could be over in 10 years if the city went ahead with its 2008 flood control plan.

The Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation is conducting its first project in Vietnam.

Natural gas will become more "desirable" than other energy sources including renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels.

The National Assembly was urged to set up a committee to inspect responsibility of the government members in the case.

Floods triggered by heavy rains during the past two days have killed at least three people and left two others missing in central coastal provinces.

The European Union gave notice it was not prepared to go beyond a planned 20-percent cut in greenhouse-gas emissions ahead of next month's UN climate talks.

Many people in the central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province felt short of breath this past week  due to toxic gases emitted by Dung Quat, the country’s first oil refinery.

Conde Nast Traveler, a renowned luxury travel magazine, has placed 5 Vietnamese hotels and resorts atop its list of Readers’ Choice Awards.

The high-tech nation is pushing the initiative to promote some of its ancient village wisdom as a way to heal battered environments worldwide.

Industrial enterprises in the Mekong Delta have begun to practice cleaner production techniques as part of a program sponsored by the Danish International Development Agency.

The government has said it will tighten control over the leasing of forest land to foreign investors

Unplanned stone mining is denigrating the beauty of the Dong Van Stone Highlands, Vietnam’s first UNESCO-recognized geopark.

The Minister of Natural Resources and Environment assured that two red-mud lakes in the Central Highlands were safe.

Tigers could become extinct within 12 years but a top level meeting in Russia next month could help reverse the decline, nature conservation body WWF said.

Lawmakers yesterday deliberated on a draft environmental-tax law, focusing on which products should be taxed, who is taxable and what is the appropriate tax rate.